Trojāni lud i

, games instituted by Æneas, or his son As can i us, to commemorate the death of Anchises, and celebrated in the circus at Rome. Boys of the best families, dre ed in a neat manner, and accoutred with suitable arms and weapons, were permitted to enter the list. Sylla exhibited them in his dictatorship, and under August us they were observed with unusual pomp and solemnity. A mock fight on horseback, or sometimes on foot, was exhibited. The leader of the party was called princeps juventutis , and was generally the son of a senator, or the heir apparent to the empire. Virgil , Æneid , bk. 5 , li. 602 .— Suet on i us , Cæsar & August us .— Plutarch , Sulla .